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Transgendering Faith: Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality

Transgendering Faith is a resource to help churches respond with love and care to transgender people in our society, both those within the Christian community and those who find themselves--unhappily--outside its doors. It is also a book for transgender Christians, their families, pastoral counselors, and clergy. The first section, The Basics for Everyone, includes essays written by professionals and therapists who give readers a basic understanding of the transgender issue. Part Two--In Our Own Words--features stories of transgender persons from diverse denominational, age, ethnic, and racial backgrounds. These are stories of their painful experiences of rejection, self-doubt, and Bible-flavored condemnation, but also stories celebrating God's blessing of who they are and their church and family experiences of hospitality, affirmation, and reconciliation. Part Three includes worship resources, Bible studies, and transgender resources for individual and community use.

Acerca do autor (2004)

Tigert, an ordained United Church of Christ minister, is pastor of Spirit of the Mountains in Concord, NH. A family therapist at the Stafford Guidance Center in Dover, New Hampshire.

Maren C. Tirabassi is the author of eighteen books, most published by Pilgrim Press, including the recent "From the Psalms to the Cloud - Connecting to the Digital Age" with Maria Mankin. She is a former Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She can be found at the poetry and global worship blog Gifts in Open Hands at: http: //giftsinopenhands.wordpress.com/ Maren has been a pastor for thirty-five years and currently serves Union United Church of Christ in Madbury, New Hampshire. She leads workshops on creative writing, memoir, liturgy, short fiction and poetry in a range of settings from recovery group to senior center, correctional facility to ESL class. She lives with Don Tirabassi and Willie the beagle in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and she is very fond of Christmas.